Campus programmes

At the undergraduate level, Wellington Management has a Boston and Chicago based summer internship programme. The internship takes place between June and August and typically lasts 10-12 weeks.

While the internship programme focuses on targeting underrepresented groups in investment management (women and people of colour), the programme is inclusive, therefore any qualified candidates can apply. Overall, we seek talented, dedicated students with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.

Our internship roles fall into many departments across the firm including the areas of business, investment research, investment science and information technology. Internship roles typically fall into the following teams, but change every year based on business need:

• Client Services
• Equity Research
• Fixed Income Research
• Global Accounting
• Client Group
• Global Trading
• Investment Analytics
• Investment Science
• Information Technology
• Legal & Compliance
• Portfolio Data
• Risk Services
• Trading Operations
• Wellington Funds Group

Over the summer, our interns experience a highly challenging and rewarding programme that offers insights into the investment management industry and Wellington Management. Exceptional summer interns are viewed as potential candidates for our full-time campus programmes.

The deadline to apply is 21 October 2021

Wellington Management has selectively established offices to support global investing and our global client base. Our relationship management teams actively serve clients in their own time zones. The proximity, coupled with their local market knowledge, enables relationship managers to focus on issues unique to each client’s investment environment. With the growth of our global offices, we are now able to offer more opportunities for undergraduates. Below are the current offices with opportunities:

Beijing

Wellington Management offers investment research opportunities in the Beijing office. The programme typically takes place during the summer. Eligible candidates are sourced from Peking University and Tsinghua University. Please contact your career services office for more information.

Hong Kong

Wellington Management offers undergraduate opportunities in the Hong Kong office. Eligible candidates are sourced from local universities and should be eligible to work in Hong Kong. Please contact the undergrad mailbox for more information.

London

Wellington Management offers an undergraduate diversity internship in London to those candidates interested in the investment management industry. UK citizenship is required.

Wellington Management also offers an opportunity for a 12-month placement in the London Office. Eligible candidates are sourced locally. Please contact your careers services office for more information.

Singapore

Wellington Management offers investment research and client services opportunities based in the Singapore office. Interested undergraduates must be in their penultimate year and eligible to work in Singapore. The programme recruits directly from the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University. Please contact your career services office for more information.

Sydney

Wellington Management offers internships working with both the portfolio services and relationship teams in the Sydney office. Applicants should be penultimate year students who are eligible for work in Australia. The programme runs from January to July and July to January. We recruit directly from the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney in April and October of each year. Please contact your career services office for more information.

Tokyo

Wellington Management offers opportunities for up to six months in the Tokyo Office. Applicants need to be eligible to work in Japan. Please contact your careers services office for more information.

We partner directly with Northeastern University’s Co-op programme for Boston-based and international positions. If you are a Northeastern University student, please contact your advisor for more information.

A full-time, three-year opportunity for graduating bachelor’s students who are interested in a variety of career opportunities available in the investment management industry. This program will help you gain insight into our industry, firm, and culture. Successful candidates are high-performing, talented students who are intellectually curious and self-motivated. During the program, top performing BAs will be placed into positions across the firm that are complementary to their skills, interests, and business needs. To qualify, you will need to graduate in the fall 2021 – spring 2022 academic calendar year and be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in any major.

Opportunities typically exist within our Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, and Singapore offices in the following groups:

• Client Group
• Finance and Administration
• Global Trading
• Human Resources
• Investment Products and Fund Strategies
• Legal & Enterprise Risk Management

A full-time, up to five-year opportunity in our Investment Science Group suitable for bachelor’s students.

The world is full of fascinating questions. As an Investment Science Associate, you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in complex data sets, research challenging investment questions, and solve problems with modern data science techniques — from idea generation and prototyping to validation and production.

Examples of the nature of the work include:

• Building predictive models and identifying and validating public data sources to build out data-driven investment hypotheses
  
• Completing complex analytical projects and statistical analyses across securities, asset classes, and economic relationships
• Assisting with portfolio construction, factors, risk management, and trading analysis
• Creating visualizations and dashboard views using various data sets
• Working with structured and unstructured data
• Researching macroeconomic themes and factors
• Collaborating with fundamental investors to generate alpha within investment processes

Investment science associates will act as internal investment science consultants and research analysts, providing quantitative research to the firm’s talented community of investors. These insights will enable the firm to make prudent financial decisions to benefit thousands of retirees, savers, and institutions. With so many unanswered questions in the investment world, which ones will you answer?

A full-time, up to three to five-year opportunity in our Investment Platform suitable for undergraduate students, and individuals with 1 – 3+ years of work experience.

The goal of the Early Career Investor program is to provide flexible, value-added analytical resources to support the firm’s mission of superior investment performance. We aim to develop and identify exceptional RAs to build our pipeline of talented investors. Through a series of rotations, program participants will play a critical role in assisting experienced analysts and portfolio managers in conducting research and implementing their investment process. Some program participants may spend up to 24 months in their first rotation based on their experience and our needs may be more closely aligned with one asset class. Interested candidates should have geographic flexibility. For our 2022 hiring needs, opportunities exist globally, in Boston, London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Positions will be sourced from local, partnered universities by each office’s recruitment team.

Examples of the nature of the work include:

• Analyzing potential investment opportunities
• Building and maintaining company financial spreadsheets
• Modeling sophisticated financial instruments
• Completing complex analytical projects
• Researching macroeconomic themes
• Communicating investment ideas in spoken and written form
• Creating visualizations and dashboard views using various data sets
• Researching ESG factors and their impact on investments

Important characteristics that we look for in potential candidates include:

• Intellectual curiosity and mental flexibility
• A growth mindset
• Willingness and ability to take risk
• Strong learning orientation
• Humility
• Agility and comfort with ambiguity

The global InvesTech Associate program in our Investment Services and Technology department is open to eligible undergraduate students graduating with their Bachelor’s degree between Fall 2021 – Summer 2022. As an InvesTech Associate, you will develop the foundation to become successful in a career in financial operations and technology. This global program starts in July 2022 and is designed to equip you with new skills and knowledge of our clients, industry, firm, and culture while developing a strong, global internal network that will set you up for a successful transition into the firm. By investing in your personal growth on day one, you will help us continue to exceed our client’s expectations. InvesTech Associates will receive training and skill building opportunities to develop expertise in the processes and technology that drive asset management, portfolio analysis, funds, and client engagement.

Opportunities exist in:

• Information Technology
• Client Reporting & Transaction Services
• Fund Services
• Portfolio Services

The deadline to apply is 13 October 2021